Graphic Design

Professor Deana McDonagh wins the Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award. The award, which includes $150,000 in research funding, was created to honor Beckman Institute Founder Arnold Beckman by recognizing a faculty member who has fostered collaboration in their research and exemplifies his vision. Beckman and his wife, Mabel, gave $40 million to the University of Illinois in the 1980s to create the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. For more information, please visit: https://beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/article/2022/04/11/deana-mcdonagh-wins-2022-vision-and-spirit-award

 

 

Juniors: Chabeli Duran, Christine Piolet, Ellie Lee, and Ti’Andrea Jones participated in an exhibition at the Boneyard Arts Festival, ‘Whatever She Imagines’ https://www.smilepolitely.com/arts/smile_politely_went_to_boneyard_and_heres_what_we_saw/?fbclid=IwAR0-xpxC_kf_Isi1AvLwEDDAceb2hgUa6nk7AaXn5ZkvQQW43S2NDryzST8      

Professor Deana McDonagh was recently quoted in "How to Avoid Fast Furniture and Minimize Waste: Cheap, trendy and easy-to-ditch furniture comes with a hefty environment toll" in Discover Magazine. To read the full article, please visit: https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/how-to-avoid-fast-furniture-and-minimize-waste

Anastasia Tumanova received her BFA in Graphic Design in 2009. She recently created a mural for Google. HQ. https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/u-of-i-graduate-creates-mural-for-google-hq/ https://anastasiatumanova.com/  

The pedagogy of discomfort: Transformational Experiential Learning International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Autumn This paper focuses on the value of transformative pedagogy in working through discomfort when learning about limit-situations, developing a foundation for transformative pedagogy in a course setting, the importance of critical thinking in transformative pedagogy, and how transformative pedagogy is presented when the focus is on ethics, disability, and responsible design. By embedding ethics, critical consciousness, and strategic thinking, the process translates into a transformative practice of design and innovation. Students learn new ways of affecting change with a multiplicity of ideas when educators engage in transformative pedagogy. https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/view/53  

Graphic Design Assistant Professor Stacey Robinson was recently in the news for illustrating a graphic novel portraying a thriving Black community before and after Tulsa massacre. For more information, please visit https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1933347805